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DR FLINTS SERMON 



DEATH OF DR ABBOT 



SERMON 



DELIVERED IN THE MEETING-HOÜSE 



OF THE 



FIRST PARISH OF BEVERLY, 



JUNE 18, 1328, 



ON THE OCCASION OF THE L AMENTED DEATH 



REV. ABIEL AB BOT, D.D. 

LATE PASTOK OF THE FIRST CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN BEVERLY. 



Second Edition. 



BY JAMES FLINT, D. D. 

MINI9TKR OF THE SECOND CHÜRCH AND 90CIBTT-IN SALEM. 



SALEM, ^^'^^^^^^^^^^y'' 

PÜBLISHED BY J. R. BUFFUM. 




1828. 






50 Washington Street, 
ISAAC R. BUTTS AND CO.'s PRESS, 



BEVERLY, JUNE 18, 1828. 
Reverend and Dear Sir, 

The undersigned beg leave to express to you the thanks of the 
Members of the First Parish in Beverly, for the Sermon delivered by you in 
consequence of the death of Dr Ab bot, in which you so beautifully and 
happily delineated the mind and character of their late much esteemed and 
beloved Pastor, and kind and devoted friend, — and would request of you the 
favor of a copy for the press. 

"We are, very respectfully, 

Dear Sir, your obedient servants, 
THOMAS DAVIS, 
ROBERT RANTOUL, 
WILLIAM THORNDIKE, 
JOSIAH LOVETT, 
SAMUEL P. LOVETT, 

Commütee of Arrangements. 
Rbt. Dr Flint. 



SALEM, JUNE 20, 1828. 

Gentlemen, 

I FEEL no other hesitation in complying with the request so kindly 
expressed in your note, than is prompted by my regret that the hasty trlbute 
I was called to pay, in much weakness, to the memory of your " late niuch 
esteemed and beloved Pastor, and kind and devoted friend," falls so far short 
of the worth and distinguished endowments of its dear and lamented subject ; 
such, however, as it is, I subrait it to your disposal. 

I am, with unfeigned respect, gentlemen, 

Your obedient servant, 

JAMES FLINT. 
Messrs Thomas Davis, and others, 

Commütee of Arrangements. 



To the hereaved family and flock of the deceased, the foUowing 
Sermon is inscribed, with the afftctionate sympathy and respeds of 

THE AUTHOR, 
Salem, Juite 20, 1828. 



SERMON 



1. Thkssalonians, iv. 13. Sorrow not even as others which have not 
hopey the hope laid upfor you in heaven. Colossians, i. 5. 

My Christian Friends, 

It is 110 rare occurrence for a bereaved indi- 
vidual or mourning family to appear within these 
walls. Today, we have come together, at the call 
of a mysterious Providence, one entire assembly of 
mourners, to mingle our tears, our sympathies and 
prayers, as partakers in a common calamity, — to 
render our united tribute of merited honor to the 
memory of a revered servant of God, and to express 
our unavaiUng regret for the loss of a highly gifted 
and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, sorrowing most 
of all, — not for him, for we know that it is well with 
the righteous, and that the dead are blessed, who 
die in the Lord, — but for ourselves, that we shall 
see bis face no more in the flesh. 

One mournful and affecting image is present to 
the thoughts of all, — that of the good shepherd of 
this bereaved flock and the honored head of this 
afflicted family fallen the untimely victim of disease, 



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at the moment when recruited health had given 
promise of lengthened years of usefulness and peace 
in the bosom of his beloved charge and household. 
The aspect of universal sadness and grief, which I 
See before me occasioned by this event, admonishes 
me, that you deplore with no common feeling of be- 
reavement, the unlooked for summons of your reli- 
gious monitor, guide, counsdllor and friend to his 
early rest and reward, leaving you, as it has pleased 
God he should, to mourn over the sudden prostration 
of hopes, that had been so recently raised almost to 
the certainty of fruition. The husband and parent, 
in whom were centred the dearest earthly interests 
and tenderest affections of a fondly cherished and 
devoted family, has been denied to the arms already 
extended to embrace him. The pastor, so long and 
dearly prized by his expecting anxious flock, has 
been arrested by death, while hurrying with eager 
haste to lead them once more, as he trusted, beside 
the still waters and in green pastures, and to have 
his joy fulfilled in their joy at his return to them 
with renovated strength, and in the fulness of the 
blessing of the Gospel of Christ. The voice, to 
which you had expected once more to have listened 
the last Sabbath in this place, which has here so 
often raised your hearts to God and so often sooth- 
ed the sorrows of the. mourner, is now hushed in the 
long silence of the grave. The ear that hath heard 
him shall hear him no more. The eye that hath 
seen him shall see him no more. The places that 
have known him shall know him no more. You 
have not had even the melancholy satisfaction of 



reridering the last Offices to his insensible dust, and 
of placing it in the sacred enclosure, in which you 
had all hoped, that it might have reposed in its last 
sleep with yours. 

It is a common weakness of our nature to asso- 
ciate all our recollections of the departed with the 
body, even when the spirit that animated it is gone, 
as our religion assures us, to mingle with kindred 
spirits in glorified bodies fashioned hke unto that of 
our glorified Saviour. And it is, therefore, no small 
addition to the pain of bereavement, when the loved 
form of the friend we mourn is laid in a distant 
grave, — when 

" By foreign hands his dying eyes were closed, 
By foreign hands his lifeless limbs composed, 
By foreign hands his lonely grave adorn'd, 
By strangers honor'd, and by strangers mourn'd." 

The death of a neighbor, or a casual acquaintance, 
in the obscurest walks of life, brings a shade of sad- 
ness and solemnity over the mind of the most unre- 
flecting and unconnected witness of the event. But 
God speaks to us with a louder warning and more 
solemn emphasis, when the eminent and the good 
are taken away, who häve long filled a large space 
in the public regard, and sustained the most respon- 
sible relations that exist in human society. A thou- 
sand common objects may, we know, be removed 
out of their place without attracting the notice of 
many observers. But the sudden disappearance of 
a lighthouse or watchtower, that had long stood, as 
a guide to the mariner, or the traveller, cannot take 
place without awakening a general interest and at- 



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tention. And if, as we have all so of ten seen and 
feit, the Impression be slight and transient, when the 
living read the lesson of their frailty in the frequent 
funerals of the promiscuous crowd of all ages, whose 
existence and exit are alike unknown beyond their 
immediate vicinity, it is not so, it cannot be so, when 
death has selected, as in the instance we mourn, an 
elevated and shining mark, and, by removing with a 
stroke, a distinguished individual, has deprived not 
only a family of its dearest earthly dependence and 
solace, but a numerous and united people of their 
Spiritual father, and the visible centre and bond of 
their union ; the church and Commonwealth of a pil- 
lar and an Ornament ; his brethren in the ministry of 
a brother whose presence was to them as the light 
of the morning, whose friendship and hearty counsel 
have so often rejoiced their hearts, given ardor to 
their zeal, wisdom and elevation to their purposes, 
and imparted a charm, a sweet and hallowing in- 
fluence, to their intercourse on earth, the remem- 
brance of which they will love to cherish, while 
they live, as an earnest of the higher and dearer 
communion which they hope to share with him in 
heaven. 

It is to this hope, laid up for us in heaven, and to 
the consoling remembrances associated with the life 
and labors and character of him we mourn, that all, 
who partake in the sorrows of this occasion, must 
turn for relief from ihose painful feelings which the 
peculiarly afflictive circumstances of the eveni we 
deplore are calculated to produce and prolong; 
and upon which we have already dwelt, as we are 



naturally prone to dwell, with a pertinacity of 
mournful remembrance and regret, perhaps not 
meet to be indulged by those who believe that not 
a sparrow falls to the ground without the knowledge 
and direction of our Father in heaven, and who 
profess to confide in the promise which he has prom- 
ised US by his Son, even eternal life. Think then 
no more of thesc circumstances, except to acknow- 
ledge that they have been ordered by a better wis- 
dom than ours. Let reason, let piety repress the 
wanderings of that " busy meddling memory," that 
loves to bring beforo the mind melancholy images, 
which wound and depress the spirit, without mak- 
ing the heart better. Forget the place and man- 
ner, in which the spirit of the good and faithful 
servant received its summons to enter into the joy 
of his Lord. It is of small moment to him who 
holds himself always in readiness to depart, whether 
he expire at home or abroad, in the bosom of his 
family, or among strangers, in his bed or in the open 
air, on the dry land or whelmed in the ways of the 
deep, suddenly or lingeringly. Death to him in 
any circumstances is infinite gain. Our sorrow is 
selfish, or it is an infirmity, to which Christians 
should be superior, if we persist to mourn, when 
we have just cause to beheve that the departed has 
exchanged a corruptible for an incorruptible body, 
and is now clothed with immortality, shining with 
a splendor surpassing that of the sun and the bright- 
ness of the firmament, already entered upon his 
celestial progress from glory to glory in improvement 
and happiness withlout interruption or end. 
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10 

If we believe such a change, a scene of such 
surpassing glory and transcendant joy, as is prom- 
ised to them that have turned many souls to right- 
eousness, has opened upon the soul of the beloved 
servant of God, who has left the scene of his la- 
bors and disciphne with us upon earth, why should 
we mourn, — why sorrow like those who are Igno- 
rant of the hope laid Up for them in heavenf 
Because the voice to which you onco Ustened with 
dehght is silent to you, would you recall it from 
mingling in the songs of the blessed, that it might 
instruct and gladden you again only for a few short 
years ? Because God has changed the countenance 
that once beamed with affection on you, and has 
now made it radiant in his presence with the Hght 
and glory which shall hereafter be revealed in all 
his children, would you, if you might, divest it of 
the image of the heavenly, that you might see it 
again bear the image of the earthly man, even 
though his face, like that of the blessed martyr, might 
be to you as the face of an angel ? Did you, while 
the faithful pastor, the good father, and the bosom 
friend was with you, sincerely wish his happiness, 
his peace, his joy, and that he might be shielded from 
pain and sorrow ? How inconsistent then your grief 
for his removal. The words of Jesus, when he said, 
in Ms World ye shall have tribulation, have been 
verified in the experience of all his servants. The 
Christian ministry has been significantly likened to 
the little book in the apocalypse, " a bitter sweet, 
and the sweet comes first;" and in every relation 
of this checkered scene of mingled good and evil. 



11 

there can be no security against sufFering, no pledge 
or guarantee of continued happiness. But in the 
World to which we trust in Jesus Christ our brother 
is gone, all is security, rest, unchangeable serenity and 
fulness of joy ; for there the spirits of the just are made 
perfect ; they have entered into life, neither can they 
die any more ; for they are equal unto the angels, and 
are the children of God, being the children of the res- 
urrection» The wicked is driven away in his wicked- 
ness ; but the souls of the righteous are in the hands 
of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In 
the sight of the unwise they seemed to die ; and their 
departure was takenfor misery, and their going fr om 
US to be utter destruction ; but they are inpeace. And 
I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, ivrite, 
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence- 
forth ; Yea, saith the spirit^ thai they may rest from 
their labors, and their works do follow them. 

Why, then, regret their departure ? Happy for 
them, nay, happy for us, that no tears or prayers 
can bring them back again. The truer, the intenser 
our love for them, the more truly and fervently shall 
we thank God, that it is not permitted us to recall 
them. For we may adopt, in respect to our depart- 
ed brother, the language of one, who feit as a Chris- 
tian should feei upon this subject, — 

" what here we call our lue is such* 

So little to be loved, and thou so much, 
We should butill requite thee to constrain 
Thy unbound spirit into bonds again." 

Tijhe departed cannot return to us ; but we shall ere 
long, and may soon go to them. All the living are 



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following in solemn procession the generations that 
have goiie before ; and the entire human race, 
from the beginning to the end of time, appears in the 
eyes of Hirn who liveth forever, but one vastfuneral 
train, moving in perpetual succession to the grave, 
and there putting ofF this mortal to be clothed with 
immortahty. • For asjvith Adam all die, so with 
Christ shall all he made alive. For since hy man 
came death, so by man also has come the resurrection 
of the dead, 

To the mansions of the blessed, whither our vir- 
tuous progenitors and kindred have preceded us, — 
whither your departed pastor so often and affection- 
ately besought you all with prayers and many tears 
to raise with him your views and affections, and 

" tried each art, reproved each dull delay, 

AUured to brighter worlds and led the way" — 

to those happy mansions, the way is open to all who 
will ask and s^ek and strive to go up thither; and 
your pastor now beseeches you by the awful elo- 
quence of the grave, to enter in. Come up hither 
is the united voice of all that dwell with God, and 
of God him seif, to you that survive. Obey this 
voice ; gird up the loins of your minds, be sober 
and watch unto prayer ; and death that has divided 
you from your pastor and friend for a season, will 
rejoin you to him, each in your turn ; and as he 
hails and welcomes your successive arrival thithe-r, 
until you are all gathered into the fold of the great 
shepherd and bishop of souls, not one wanderer 
lost, then will he rejoice in the day of Christ, that ae 



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has not run in vain, neiiher lubared in valn, Then 
will be accomplished the objectof bis labors, exhorta- 
tions, and prayers for you. Tbink. tiien, at all thnes, 
thatyou bear tbat well-knowii voice, as you have 
so often beard it witbin tbese walls, addressing to you, 
7iot in ivords which man^s wisdom teacheth, hut m words 
which the holyghost teacheth, wbicb be loved to use, — 
hear bim, I say, addressing to you tbe desire wbicb 
he feit for you strong in life and in deatb, and wbicb 
deatb cannot bave weakened, (hat every one of you 
do show the same diligence to the füll assvrance of 
hope nnto the end ; that ye he not slothful^ hut follow- 
ers of them, who through faith and patience are gone 
to inherit the promises ; for so a nnansion sball be 
prepared for you in your Fatber's bouse, wbere, 
united in love witb all tbe good and excellent of tbe 
eartb, wbo bave lived or sball live, you sball cele- 
brate togetber an eternal triumpb over sin and deatb, 
over sorrow and mourning, for ever boly, for ever 
bappy. 

In view of tbis exceeding great and eternal weigbt 
of glory, wbicb constitutes the hope laid up in heav- 
en for tbe Christian, and in wbicb tbe good minister 
of Jesus Christ, and all wbo are of like spirit witb 
him are to find their reward, not of debt, but of 
God's free, rieb, unbougbt, exuberant grace, tbe 
apostle might well exbort us not to sorrow for those 
who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 

It is fit tbat you sbould remember, and tbat you 
should never cease to remember affectionately, ten- 
derly, religiously, the messenger and servant of the 
Lord, who has so long been in and out before you 



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and shown unto you the way of salvation. God 
haswilled that the righteous shall he had in everhsting 
rememhrancc, Cherishing the memory of your pas- 
tor with a grate ful love, that shall dwell upon his 
virtues, and the lessons of piety, benevolence and 
peace, which feil so persuasively from his lips, and 
which were expressed still more eloquently in his 
life, will be at the same time to cherish the hope laid 
upfor you in heaven. For they can hardly fail to be 
inseparably associated in your minds. They will 
mutually suggest each other. When you think of 
him, you will think of the bright abode of his rest, 
of the Community of the blessed, to which you trust 
the God, whom he loved and served, has received 
him, and of the evangelical faith, life and 'temper 
by which alone he taught you to hope for an en- 
trance into that abode, for admission to that Com- 
munity. 

It is indeed a peculiar privilege of the minister of 
religion, who has been faithful, that his image is 
embalmed and perpetuated in the affectionate re- 
membrance of his people by the sacred and imper- 
ishable nature of the relation he sustains to them. 
Unlike all the other social and various civil relations, 
that subsist among men, and which have respect only 
to things Seen and temporal, this has respect chiefly 
to things unseen and eternal. The bonds, which 
bind the Christian pastor to his charge and his charge 
to him, are "not flesh and blood, but faith and love, 
that are in Christ Jesus, "^^ These regard the spirit 
that is in man, and like that are commensurate with 
all future duration. Heroes, patriots, statesmen, 



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may rear higher monuments, and fill with a louder 
blast the clarion of fame in this world, than the 
hurnble minister of Jesus Christ. But he will 
have a monument, a name and a praise in the souls 
he has assisted in rescuing from sin and forming to 
holiness, which will survive when the monuments 
and memorials of earthly glory, and the earth itself 
shall have passed away. These souls will then be 
his crown, his glory and his joy in the presence of 
the Lord Jesus. And while those, who have grown 
up, and been enlightened and tasted the good word 
of God under his ministry, shall survive, he will 
continue to be remembered by them with the Sab- 
baths which they spent vv^ith him in beholding the 
beauty of the Lord and inquiring in his temple, — 
with the prayers in which they united with him, — 
with the seasons of refreshment from the presence 
of the Lord at his table, which they have enjoyed 
with him, — with the many precious gone by hours, 
in which they took sweet counsel together, mingled 
mind with mind, and heart with heart, upon themes, 
which will be of everlasting interest to them, and 
which they will take up anew and pursue together 
in the light and communion of eternity. 

Few ministers have left more and better founded 
Claims to be thus remembered than our excellent 
and lamented brother. And I would, for the honor 
of our common faith and ministry, which he so re- 
commended and adorned by the daily beauty of his 
life, that I were endowed with a portion of his rare 
gifts to do justice to these claims. But this is an 
ambitious wish, which I must repress, and resign the 

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task to some other mind of kindred discrimination, 
deiicacy of tact, and felicity of painting with his own. 
I must be content to advert brieliy to a few particii- 
lars of his history, and to arrest, while they are fresh 
in our minds, a few recollections of the minister 
and man, as we have knovvn him. 

Dr Äbbot seems to have been endowed by nature 
and early cultnre with a singular combination of 
qualities pecuUarly adapted to the ministry. It is 
not every educated and even talented yoath, howev- 
er sober and exemplary, from which can be made 
a good minister, any more than from every piece of 
wood the statuary can shape out a Mercury. It 
reqüires a harmony and proportion of development 
in the several intellectual and moral powers, in 
which no single one predominates, so as to over- 
shadow and dwarf the growth and vigor of the 
rest. Very splendid talents are apt to generate in 
the possessor a pride of intellect, and thirst for noto- 
riety, hardly compatible with the meekness of wis- 
dom, which shoiild characterize the minister of Je- 
sus. A man thus extraordinarily endowed, instead 
of contenting himself with being the humble and 
faithful Organ for dispensing and enforcing the piain 
truths and simple yet subhme instructions of his mas- 
ter, is prone to deal in theories and speculations, in 
refinements, abstractions, and generalizations be- 
yond the reach ofthe common mind, which, howev- 
e,r they may evince his own genias and intellectual 
power, exhibit very little of the genius of Christian- 
ity, or that wisdom of God and poiver of God, which 
is unto salvation to every one that helieveth. If a 



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man possess a strong aptitude for excellence in tlie 
exercise of some particiliar mental faciilty, — has, as 
we say, a genius for logic, a genius for criticitssn, 
an imaginative mind, or a metaphysical mind, the 
master faculty, whatever it may be, obtrudes itself 
in all bis intellectual efForts, on all occasions ; and 
he thinks niore of displaying tbe pecuiiar gifts, in 
wbich he excels, than of dispensing in simplicity, 
and in a manner adapled to the nnderstandings and 
wants of bis charge, tbe manifold riches of Cbrist, 
and declaring to tbem tbe wbole coimsel of God, 
and keeping back notbing tbat is profitable for doc- 
trine, reproof, correction, and instruction in right- 
eousness. A passion for tbe fame of scbolarsbip, 
or literary distinction, exerts an equally sinister in- 
fluence upon the mind of a minister ; as it produces 
a morbid and irritating solicitude about tbe estima- 
tion in wbich bis Performances may be beld by 
judges of bterary merit. 

Dr Abbot's mind does not appear to bave been 
affected by any of tbese impediments to ministe rial 
excellence. His was a well-balanced mind. Though 
possessed of fine powers, he was not ambitious of 
the name of a genius ; but was satisfied with the 
consciousness of consecrating his gifts to tbe glory 
of the Giverin the able and faitbful discharge of tbe 
Functions of the sacred office, wbich was the object 
of bis early predilection. 

Like most of tbe ministers of New England, who 

have sustained tbe piety of her churches, and adorn- 

ed their office by the sanctity of tbeir manners, Dr 

Abbot was reared in a family, distinguished, as were 

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generally our yeomanry of the last Century, by the 
siniplicity, frugality and religious order of their do- 
mestic economy. From the daily example of his 
parents, and especially the Instructions of a discreet 
and pious mother, the aspirations of his young heart 
were early directed in cheerful devotion to his Fa- 
ther in heaven. As all children should be taught 
to do, 

" He walked with God in holy joy 
While yet his days were few ; 
The deep glad spirit of the boy 
To love and reverence grew." 

And the genial flame of devotion, thus early kin- 
dled at the domestic altar, and nurtured by the gentle 
breathings of maternal love, was aftervi^ards sus- 
tained and strengthened by the unfailing nutriment 
which it derived from an enlightened contemplation 
of the v^^orks and religious Observation of the 
providence of God, and still more from the habitual 
study of the scriptures. He was eminently a devout 
man through life ; and was remarkably, beyond most 
of his brethren, as it is often expressed, gifted in 
prayer. The readiness and pertinency, with which 
he adapted his devotions to occasions and emer- 
gencies will be long remembered in our churches. 

His youthful piety accompanied him, as the guar- 
dian of his innocence through his collegiate course, 
in which the quickness of his parts and the facility 
with which he mastered the regulär studies of his 
class, never tempted him to relax into indolence, or 
to abuse his leisure in any sort of dissipation» He 
passed that perilous ordeal of youthful virtue with- 



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out stain or censure, and gradaated with honors 
among the most distinguished of his class. He 
soon after engaged as assistant instructer in the 
Academy of his native town, where, with the min- 
ister of the place, the late Rev. Jonathan French , 
he pursued his theological studies, tili he began to 
preach at the age of twenty-four. He, from the 
first, took rank among the most populär preachers 
oftheday. He, a short time after, received and 
accepted a unanimous call to settle in Haverhill, a 
beautiful village on the west bank of the Merri- 
mack. 

After eight years usefully and happily spent with 
an affectionate people, to whom he was extremely 
endeared, inadequate support and a growing family 
rendered it an imperative duty, as it seemed to him, 
reluctantly to ask a Separation from a beloved peo- 
ple. It was with equal reluctance granted. He 
immediately became a candidate for resettlement ; 
and of several invitations from highly respectable 
societies, he gave the preference to yours. And 
here, " in the chosen spot," as he writes in his last 
letter to his family, " where my tabernacle has now 
been twenty-four years pitched," ye are witnesses, 
and God also^ how holily and justly and unhlame- 
ahly he has exercised his minislry among you ; and 
as ye also know, has exhorted and comforted and 
charged every one of you, as a father doth his chil- 
dren, that ye loould walk worthy of God, lüho hath 
called you to his kingdom and glory. 

It is a grateful consideration, that in reviewing the 
character and ministry of your pastor, you have no 



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obliquities of temper, no eccentricities of conduct, 
no extravagancies of doctrine or opinion to excuse 
or lament in him. There was nothing harsli or re- 
pulsive in his creed, or his manners. And how 
should there be, when one was modelled from the 
instructions, and the other from the character of 
him who bore the appellation of the Lamb of God, 
and on whom the spirit of heaven rested under the 
Symbol of a dove ? He deemed it no sin against 
any law of God, or the example of his master, to 
be a gentlem^an ; I do not mean of the school of 
Chesterfield, as of hypocrisy, as of deceit, hut as 
of sincerity, as of God,— of the school of St Paul, 
who exhorts a minister to be gentle towards all meUj 
to be courteous, to become, as far as in upright- 
ness he may, all things to all men. 

There was an amenity and benignity in Dr Ab- 
bot's air and voice and address, exceedingly concil- 
iating to strangers and endearing to his friends. 
His countenance beamed with complacency, and 
bespoke that inward satisfaction and peace, 

" Which goodness bosoms over." 

He had always something kind and courteous to 
say to every one, into whose Company he feil even 
for a few moments ; and no one could long remain 
in his Society, that had a heart, who did not feel that 
he had been conversing with a man equally amiable, 
intelligent and gifted. The minister and the man 
were never in him at variance with each other. In 
his most playful moods there was no unbecoming 
levity. His sport was the innocence of a child, 



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seasoned with the wit of man, and guarded by the 
circumspection of a Christian. 

Of bis religiotäs sentiments it is enough to say, 
that he called no man master, that he belonged to 
no sect but that of good men, — to no school but 
that of Jesus Christ, and that he was Hberal in the 
best sense of the term. Though he loved, Hke the 
eloquent preacher whose words I quote, " to escape 
the narrow walls of a particular church, and to 
stand under the open sky, in the broad daylight, 
looking far and wide, seeing with bis own eyes, 
hearing with bis own ears," still he never thought 
himself called upon to denounce the opinions of 
others, and rarely to obtrude his own upon the con- 
troverted points of the day. He preached, as he 
thought his master would have bim, speaking whaty 
after diligent and prayerful inquiry, he conceived 
to be the truth in love, 

The pubhcations of Dr Abbot are numerous and 
valuable. They all bear the stamp of a mind early 
imbued with the savor of classical studies, familiär 
with the best modeis of the English pulpit, enriched 
by Observation and reflection, and fertile in apt and 
beautiful illustrations, — a mind susceptible of deep 
and lively impressions from all that is bright and 
fair and lovely and magnificent in creation,-— a mind 
which had found treasures untold in the scriptures, 
and in which dwelt the ivords of Christ richly in all 
wisdom, whence he drew expressions and Images 
that gave richness and weight to his discourses and 
writings, and often reminded bis hearer or reader of 
Solomon's similitude of words fitly spoken to apples 



of gold in pictures of silver ; but what is best of all, 
they evince a mind alvvays intent upon döing good, 
and which loved and sought, iittered and enforced 
truth only as it appeared to him to be conducive to 
goodness. 

Dr Abbot was a7i eloqucMt man, as well as 
mighty in the scriptures. If Jehovah sent Aaron 
to communicate bis will to Pharaoh, hecause he 
could speak well^ Dr Abbot possessed this creden- 
tial of bis office in an eminent degree. His manner 
in the pulpit was singularly impressive, grave, natu- 
ral, solemn ; 

" much impressed 
Himself, as conscious of his awful charge. 
And maioly anxious, that the flock he fed 
Might feel it too ; aflfectionate in look. 
And tender in address, as well becomes 
A niessenger of grace to guilty men." 

He exbibited a beautiful union of zeal with pru- 
dence; and the love of souls so evidently dictated 
his admonitions and reproofs to the delinquent, that 
his fidelity and plainness seldom gave offence. In 
the sick Chamber and in the house of mourning, he 
was truly a son of consolation, 

Few men have lived more endeared, or more de- 
servedly dear in the more private relations of life. 
Like all virtuous men, he sought and found the best 
happiness which this world afFords, in the bosom of 
domestic affection, in the reciprocation of those sa- 
cred charities and daily offices of love, w^hich ren- 
der home, the fireside of a Christian and well order- 
ed family, at once the best emblera of the mansions 



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whicb await the righteous in our Father's house in 
heaven, and the best scene of preparation for those 
mansions. The yearnings of his heart to return to 
this asylum of his repose, of his purest affections 
and joys, are affectingly expressed on his arrival 
from Cuba at Charleston : " happy am I to touch 
natal soil again, and hope soon to revisit home^ 
sweet home.^^ * 

I remark one trait more, in these days of ines- 
timable value in a minister ; his signal love of peace. 
No object was dearer to his heart than to bring 
ministers and the people to feel on this subject, as 
he feit. His Convention sermon, the delivery of 
which was almost the last public act of his ministry, 
will now seem to his brethren, to the Community, 
and still more to his flock, like the dying bequest of 
Jesus to his disciples ; Peace I leave with you , my 
peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, 
give I unto you.'^^ No; the world, and I grieve to 
say it, the ministers of the Prince of peace, too ma- 
ny of them, speak a very diöerent language, and 
breathe a very different spirit. ßut with that dying 
appeal of your pastor in your hands, you, my breth- 
ren of this ancient and respectable society, will feel 
yourselves ine^cusable in the sight of heaven, if 3^ou 
allow discord to arise among you, or division to scat- 
ter you. How much he was grieved by the angry 
disputes of the day, and the rending of churches and 
societies, of which they are the cause, appears in 
the following extract from the letter before cited. 

* The bürden of a well known populär song. 



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*' Yesterday was the anniversary of my peace ser- 
mon before the Convention. I fear its gentle notes 
have not been echoed this year. There is no one 
thing, that gives me so much pain in returning to 
my loved country, as to think of its religious dis- 
sensions. May the God of peace hush them ; and 
for ever preserve my voice.from the notes of dis- 
cord." Happy spirit, thy voice never uttered the 
notes of discord, and they can never again reach 
thy ear. Thou art now joined to the sons of peace, 
the children of God, 

** Who have no discord in their song, 
Nor winter ia their year." 

Farewell, faithful servant of God ; thy warfare is 
accomphshed, thy work is finished, and thy reward 
is sure. O God, with whom do rest the spirits of 
just men made perfect, grant that we, who survive, 
may gird up the loins of our minds,- — be sober and 
watch unto prayer, — that by dihgence and persever- 
ance in well doing, we may be followers ofthem^ who 
through faith and patience, are now inheriting the 
promises. Amen. , 



APPENDIX 



Extract from a discourse delivered by Rev. John Bartlett, at Beverly, before the First 
Church and Society, June 22, 1828, being the first Sabbatti on which rellgious Services 
were performed by said Church and Society, after the death of their pastor, Rev. Di 
Abbot, was known to them. — Text — Acts xi. 24 — " He was a good man, and fall of 
the Holy Ghost, and of faith, and much people icas added unto the Lord.^^ 

After describing the character and rewards of " a good man,'* 
the whole was thus applied : — 

" Do yoii still ask for patterns to imitate, in which you may 
see all the parts of a holy and virtuous character beautifully il- 
lustrated 7 Do you ask for the example of one, in whose daily 
intercourse, in whose domestic, social and public relations, in 
fine in whose whole life, you may see the Clements and the evi- 
di§nces of a good man ? To whom could I more justly and per- 
tinently refer you than to that eminent, venerated and endeared 
individual, by whose recent and sudden death, a beloved family 
are bereaved of their glory, of the best and kindest of earthly 
friends ; an affectionate people of a learned, faithful, tender and 
devoted pastor ; the churches of Christ, of one, who has always 
feit a lively interest in their welfare, sympathised in their suffer- 
ings, counselled and sustained them in their trials, aided and re- 
joiced in their prosperity ; — and his brethren in the ministry, of 
one, who was ever ready to the Offices of love, by whose prompt 
sympathy and aid, by whose counsels and friendship, their labors 
and solitude were lightened, and by whose example, their zeal 
was animated to new efforts in the service of God and mankind. 
To be taken away from those, for whom he seemed to live, at a 
time too when they were eagerly expecting his return ; and when 
he appeared particularly desirous, and peculiarly qualified to 
benefit and bless society by his instructions and labors, is one of 
those events, which it hath pleased God to leave involved in that 
mystery, for the removal of which we must be willing to wait 
tili we shall cease to ' see througk a glass darJcly.' ^ He taketh 



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«?zjßy/ says Job : ^ivlio can Jiinderhim?'' There is, however, 
much left us of this estimable friend, which calls for devout grat- 
itude, There are left, bis cbaracter, bis exaraple, bis counsels ; 
and tbere are offered to us wbat were bis consolations, and what 
we believe is now bis reward. ' Blessed are tlie dead who die in 
the Lord,' &c. &c. It is not my intention to sketcb bis biogra- 
pby. Tbis requires apen of happier power tlian any I can bring. 
All tbat T can present is the tribute of friendsbip and gratitude. 
You all knew bim. He was ever among you, as your pastor, 
your friend and brotber. You have seen and feit bis wortb. 
And is it not to be hoped, that to raany of you bis instructions 
have been a savour of life unto life ? How clear and pursua- 
sively were tbey given. How fraught with meaning ; howenli- 
vened by beautiful and apt metaphor, and enforced by sound 
argument. How mighty v/as he in the Scriptures, and how per- 
tinent in bis application of them. With what fervency and be- 
nevolent solicitude were your interests commended by bim to the 
Father of mercies ; and how afFectionately and earnestly did he 
always exhort you, like Earnabas, to ckave to the I^ord löitlifvM 
purpose of heart. Surely ' he was a good man and fvM of the 
holy ghost arid of faith,' and it is believed that by him ^much 
people were added to the Lord,'' 

" I would, on this occasion, forbear indulging personal feelings 
of friendsbip, by attempting to portray all the excellences of his 
private cbaracter. I shall narrate only one circunistance, which, 
noWj I feel that I have not the liberty to concea! ; — a circum- 
stance which illustrates his piety and faithfulness ; his prepared- 
ness for death, and the justice of applying to his cbaracter the 
words of the text. On a visit to him, made at his request, a few 
days before his departure to a warmer climate, for the benefit of 
his health ; at a time when his physician and friends and he 
himself were apprehensive, that the disease, which then oppress- 
ed him, would speedily terminate his life ; at this time, when 
the heart has no disguise, and the soul is anxious to utter all that 
it deems true and kind, important and useful, be thus addressed 
me (evidently with a wish that it should be remembered and at 
a fit time communicated) — 'I believe the hour of my departure 
is at band ; how near I cannot say, but not far distant is the 



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tmie when I sliali be in the immediate presence of my Maker. 
This Impression leads nie to look back upon my life and in- 
wardly upon my present State. In the review I find many things 
to be humbled and penitent for, and many things to fill me with 
gratitüde and praise. I have, I trust, the testimony of my heart, 
that my life, my best powers, my time, and my efForts, have in 
the main been sincerely given to God and to mankind. Of all 
the years of my life, the present, in the review, gives me most 
pleasure. You know my recent plans and labors, and the design 
ofthem, [alluding to discourses, delivered before the Convention 
of ministers, and at the Ordination of Rev. A, Abbot, and to 
certain contributions to a religiouspublication, the Christian Vis- 
itant, whose object coincided with bis views, and to extend the 
circulation of which he was making great efforts.] In these, I 
have endeavored to check the spirit of contention among Chris- 
tians, and as a disciple of the Prince of Peace, to diffuse the 
spirit of love and peace, to inspire Christians with a warmer 
zeal for the great object of religion. The efforts were great. 
My health and perhaps my life are the sacrifice. If the Lord 
will, be it so. If ever I faithfully served him, it was in these 
Services. If ever I feit prepared for death, it was when they 
were finished. If ever I knew and feit the deligbtful import of 
that passage, — I am now reacly to be ojfered and the time of my 
departm^e is at hand; Ihavefought a goodfight^ I have finished 
my course, I have Jcept thefaith, &c, it was then, and it is now. 
In ray own bosom there is peace. Whether life or death be be- 
fore me, all is well. I can say, the ivill of the Lord he done. 
With the greatest serenity he alluded to the expected issue of his 
disorder, and seemed filled with a good hope ihrough grace of 
eternal life. He was indeed j^eady to be offercd, aod is now re- 
moved, we believe, to a higher sphere, and to nobler eraploy- 
ments and joys. 

" My Brethren, he was not alone in his departure. The spirit 
of his near and valued friend* was, by a remarkable coincidence 
dismissed nearly at the same hour from the cares and duties and 
sufferings of this life, and called to wing its flight to a better 

* Hon. Thomas Stevens, who died at Beverly tlis same day and nearly 
at the same tirae that Dr Aubot expired. 



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World. How readily does the character described in the text 
suggest the idea of that excellent, distingaished Citizen, who has 
so long been an ornament and blessing of this Community, and 
of this religious society. The general excellence of his charac- 
ter, the remarkable soundness of his judgment, the correctness 
of his opinions, and of his vvhole deportment ; the great, exten- 
sive and propitious influence which he wielded, by which so 
much good resulted to this society, to the town and to the whole 
Community, made his removal, a calamity of no ordinary char- 
acter, an affliction which reaches every heart. O how dark are 
such dispensations of Providence in their first aspect ! and how 
overwhelming the trial, had we no refuge to repair to. The 
Lord God omnipotent reigneth : and he reigns with perfect wis- 
dom, rectitude and love. Shall not the Judge ofall the earth da 
right 1 Shall we receive good at the hands of the Lord and shall 
we not receive evil 1 He leaves us the consolation of a good hope 
of those, who have lived in his fear and in his service. He leaves 
US the remembrance of the many excellences of their character, 
of the great good they have done. Their exampie is before us, 
as a pattern. The respect and love, with which while living 
they were regarded, and with which their memory is cherished, 
now they are dead, together with the glorious reward which 
awaits the righteous, are held out to us as most powerful induce- 
ments to hefollowers of those, who through faith and patience 
are inheriting the promises." 



HISTORICAL NOTES. 



The following account of the formation of the First Cburch, in Beverly, and tlie settlement 
of the first minister, is extracted frora the records of tliat Church :— 

'^ The Lord in mercy alluring and bringing over into this wil- 
derness of New England, many of bis faithful servantsfrom Eng- 
land, whose aim was to worship God in pnrity, according to bis 
Word : they, in pursuance of tliat work, began to set up particu- 
lar Churches. And the first Church gathered in the Massa- 
chusetts Colony, was in this town of Salem ; a gracious begin- 
ning of that intended Church reformation which hath been 
further prosecuted and prospered through the Lord's mercy in 
divers parts of this land. This Church of Salem entered into 
church covenant, with fasting and prayer, upon the sixth day of 
the sixth month, [August 6,] 1629. Their number, at the be- 
ginning very small, was soon greatly increased, and enriched with 
divers worthy laborers in God's vineyard, as Pastors and Teach- 
ers, successively, viz : Mr Samuel Skelton, Mr Francis Higgin- 
son, Mr Hugh Peters, Mr Edward Norris, and Mr John Higgin- 
son, their present pastor.* As the Church increased, divers of 
the" members came over the ferry to live on Bass River side, 
They on the tenth of the twelfth month, [February lOth] 1649, 
Mr Norris being Teacher, presented their request to the rest of 
the Church for some course to be taken for the means of grace 
amongst themselves, because of the tediousness and difficulties 
over the water, and other inconveniences ; which motion was 
renewed again the twenty second of the seventh month, [Octo- 
ber 22d] 1650, and the second day of the eighth month they re- 
turned their answer, viz : That we should look out some able 
and approved Teacher to be amongst us, we still holding com- 
munion with them as before. But upon further experience, we 
upon the twenty third day of the first month, [March 23d] 1656, 

* Mr Roger Williams, wbo was a Minister in 1634 and 1635, ia notno- 
ticed. He was expelled for some peculiarity of sentiment, and settled at 
Providence. 



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presented our desires to the cburch of ourselves, and after some 
agitation about it, vvhen our Teacher stood for us, it was put to 
vote and consented unto, iione appearing opposite, we protesting 
that there was rio division of afFection intended, but brotherly 
communion. Our desire being consented unto, we proceeded to 
build a Meeting House on Bass River side, and we cailed unto us 
successively, to dispense the word of life unto us, Mr Josiah 
Hubbard, Mr Jeremiah Hubbard, and Mr John Haie. After 
almost three years' experience of Mr John Haie, our motion was 
again renewed the twenty third day of the fourth month, [June 
23d] 1667, and was as follows :— 

We whose names are underwritten, the brethren and sisters 
belonging to Bass River, do present our desire to the members 
of the Church of Salem, that with their consent we and our chil- 
dren may be a Church of ourselves, and we also present unto 
Mr Haie, desiring him to join with us and to be our Pastor with 
the approbation of the members of the Church. 

Roger Connant, Thomas Lathrop, William Dixey, Richard 
Dodge, Samuel Corning, Henry Herrick, William Woodberry, 
sen., William Dodge, sen., Humphrey Woodberry, sen., Robert 
Morgan, Peter Woolfe, Richard Brackenbury, Hugh Woodberry, 
John Black, sen.. Josiah Rootes, sen., John Stone, sen., Nicholas 
Patch, Lott Conant, Exercise Conant, John Dodge, sen., John 
Hill, Ralph Ellingwood, Edward Bishop, Sarah Conant, Bethiah 
Lathrop, Anna Dixey, Mary Dodge, sen., Elizabeth Dodge, 
Elizabeth Corning, Anna Woodberry, sen., Elizabeth Wood- 
berry, Ede Herrick, Elizabeth Haskell, Ellen Brackenbury, 
Anna Woodberry, jun., Mary Lo\^ett, Martha Woolfe, Mary 
Dodge, jun., Mary Woodberry, Hannah Woodberry, Hannah 
Baker, Abigail Hill, Sarah Leach, Elizabeth Patch, Mary 
Herrick, Lydia Herrick, Freegrace Black, Hannah Gallowes, 

Bridget . 

Such as are members, but not in füll communion, desire to 
be dismissed with their parents. [Here follow twenty four 
names — the surnames the same as above, with two exceptions.] 

This motion was answered the twenty first day of the fifth 
month, [July 21 st] 1667, as follows- viz. this writing being 
read, together with the names subscribed, there was a unani- 



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mous consent of the brethren present, imto their desire ; only it 
was left to the sacrament day after, wlien, in the füllest church 
asserably, the consent of the vvhole church was signified by theh* 
votes, and so they gave their liberty to be a Church of themselves, 
only they continued members here until their being a Church. 
The Lord grant his gracious presence with them." 



On the 28th of August, 1667, the brethren renewed their call 
to Mr John Haie to be their Pastor, which he accepted. On the 
20th of September following, they made confession of their faith 
and renewed their covenant, and proceeded to the Ordination of 
Mr Haie, who was ordained by the laying on of hands of the 
Rev. John Higginson of Salem, Rev. Thomas Cobbettofipswich, 
and Rev. Antipas Newman of Wenham. 

The town of Beverly was incorporated Oct. 14th, 1668. 

Rev. John Haie died May 15th, 1700, in the sixty fourth year 
of his age. 

Rev. Thomas Blowers was ordained Oct. 29th, 1701, and 
died June 17, 1729. • 

Rev. Joseph Champney was ordained on the second Wednes- 
day of December, 1729, and died March Ist, 1773, in the sixty 
ninth year of his age. 

Rev. Dr Joseph Willard was ordained in November, 1772, and 
dismissed by mutual consent, December, 1781, he having been 
appointed President of Harvard College. He died in 1804. 

Rev. Dr Joseph McKean was ordained in March, 1785, and 
dismissed by mutual consent, August 23d, 1802, he having been 
appointed President of Bowdoin College. He died in 1807. 

Rev. Dr Abiel Abbot was installed December i4th, 1803, and 
died June 7th, 1828, aged fifty eight. 

In the Space of one hundred and sixty one years, the Church 
and Society have enjoyed the ministry of six ministers with the 
greatest harmony. They have been destitute of a settled min- 
ister, during that period, for about six years in the whole. 



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Dr Abbot died on board the ship Othello, as she was entering 
the harbor of New York, trom Charleston, South Carolina. He 
had been passing the cold season in Carolina, and in Cuba, for 
the benefit of his health, which was greatly improved ; *and he 
was hastening home to the circle of his friends, to the bosom of 
his family, and the flock of his charge. He arrived at Charles- 
ton, from the Havana, about the first of June. He preached at 
Charleston on Sunday, and on Monday embarked for New York, 
in good health and spirits. On Tuesday he was seized with a 
pain in his head, and continued ill for the remainder of the pas- 
sage, though his case was not deemed dangerous. He was so 
well on Saturday morning as to dress himself and go upon deck, 
where he expired at half past twelve o'clock, just before the ship 
came to anchor at the duarantine ground. His remains were 
deposited in the cemetery on Staten Island. The funeral Ser- 
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